Dutton confesses: Turnbull is lying

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Lol, this country is %$#@:

Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has confirmed he discussed changing Australia’s immigration intake with senior colleagues.

Mr Dutton this morning said he supported Malcolm Turnbull’s denial of the revelation, published in The Australian, despite going on to confirm a lot of the story’s content.

The Australian revealed yesterday Mr Dutton proposed cutting Australia’s yearly maximum immigration intake from 190,000 to 170,000.

The report was flatly described as wrong by the Prime Minister.

Specifically, he said:

The story on the front page of — I’m so glad you asked that — the story on the front page of The Australian today about migration and the cabinet is completely untrue. It’s false. It’s completely untrue.

You know you’re at the bottom of the barrel when Creepy Pete can take the high moral ground on ya.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.